Collaborators
The Other Side of Me
Project Lead
Dr Laura Fish
Dr Laura Fish is an award-winning writer of Caribbean heritage. She is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing programme at UEA in 2002; she was awarded a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from UEA in 2007.
Laura is a Fellow of the Iowa International Writers Programme and has held posts as a Creative Writing tutor at St Andrews University, University of Western Cape, University of East Anglia, and Newcastle University, where she was the RCUK Academic Fellow in Creative Writing 2007–2013.
Laura has over 10 years’ experience with BBC in broadcast television and radio in news, current affairs, features and light entertainment. She has been invited to read from and talk about her work internationally.
Project Lead
Liz Pavey
Liz Pavey is a dance artist (improviser, choreographer, and teacher) whose work is informed by somatic movement practices and theories of embodiment. She has lectured in performance at Northumbria University since 2004.
Before joining Northumbria University, Liz was Senior Lecturer in Dance at Wolverhampton University. She received a Distinction for her MA The Body & Representation, Reading University, and has a First Class BA(Hons) dance degree from Surrey University. During her undergraduate studies she spent a year at Ohio State University studying dance, LMA and Advanced Labanotation.
Liz’s performance credits include site-specific works by American choreographer Stephan Koplowitz and she was an assistant to Koplowitz for Babel Index at the British Library. Liz’s own site-specific choreography has included CELL, Gateshead Old Town Hall, and All At Sea, a collaboration with Anna Brown for The Council House, Birmingham.
Liz is currently leading Living Stone a practice-research project investigating our relationship to the living earth through durational improvisation dance. She is a Shiatsu (Japanese bodywork) practitioner and works as a business coach for the university’s Internal Coaching Network.
Project Lead
Gary Lang
Artistic Director, choreographer and senior Larrakia man, Gary Lang has extended family relationships that extend across to Yirrkala, NT.
A dynamic dancer, choreographer, teacher and performer, Lang is a much-loved and revered figure in the Northern Territory community. His strong cultural identity drives his work as an ambassador for Indigenous peoples and artists of the Northern Territory.
Lang’s artistic innovations has seen the development of the dance form, Aboriginal Ballet, which deconstructs the colonial ballet archetype using First Nations storytelling to create fresh relevance for all Australians. This is the legacy of Lang’s choreographic work.
Lang’s training stemmed from his studies at NAISDA Dance College, where went on to perform and tour nationally and internationally with Bangarra Dance Company under Stephen Page, Dancenorth under Jane Pirani and AIDT the Company under Raymond Blanco before forming NT Dance Company in Darwin.
NT Dance Company
NT Dance Company creates locally excellent and nationally relevant stories for the international stage.The creative vision of senior First Nations choreographer and Artistic Director, Gary Lang, NT Dance Company reflects the diversity of people and art in Larrakia, telling First Nations stories that integrate dancers of all nationalities. Indigenous-owned NT Dance Company is Company in Residence at Darwin Entertainment Centre.
The NT Dance Company holds a strong cultural and altruistic focus supporting youth diversion and rehabilitation programmes.
